To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“neuroscience research—has been providing evidence that “independent thought” is certainly not absolute, and possibly a figment of our egos’ making.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business." (… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Independent thought is hard and liberating, thoughtless acceptance is easy and enslaving.” — Ronin Copy Share Image
“As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Paste Magazine really embodies all that's left of a true independent thought and expression in music journalism in the states right now.… — Shawn Mullins Copy Share Image
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Higher level independence starts with the freedom and independence of the mind to think and act according to the highest principles of… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
“Despite the plethora of studies and papers written about teachers as learners (Paulo Freire comes to mind here4), the top-down structure of… — Jose Vilson Copy Share Image
“more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Einstein said, “ Imagination is more important than knowledge,” but you’d be hard-pressed to find schools or corporations that invest in people… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“Beware the God who seeks praise. Beware the guru who presumes to teach that which is unfixed and boundless. Beware the healer… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to learn and research for yourself, it tends to be safer… — Teresa Stover Copy Share Image
“Just because the educational work of the Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Is the burden of independent thought wearing you down? Do you dread the indecision that awaits every time you open your wardrobe?… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“„Hitler´s dictatorship“, he said, „differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Alignment, to us, means bringing pieces into the same line - the same direction. The metaphor is that a magnet will make… — Dave Logan Copy Share Image